GLOSSARY. 343 



"Salient. Projecting; jutting out. 

 Sanguineous. Blood-red. 



Jectors. Longitudinal nerves wliicli strike the princijial nerves at an 

 angle, and usually reach the apex or hind margin of the wing. 

 lihyaline. Half transparent. 

 ^ilunar. Half-moon shaped. 



feous. Having the surface with a silk-like gloss, usually from 

 1 minute, dense hairs. 

 Serr; ted. Having prominences like saw-teeth. 



Seta A bristle-like appendage, such as at the tail of Ephemera, &c. 

 Seta< 30US. Bristle-like ; resembling a bristle. 

 Setee Plural of Seta. 

 Setif rm. Bristle-shaped. 



Sinu ted. Scooped out, or broadly shallowly excavated on a margin. 

 Spur . Stiff bristle-like appendages upon the tihice. In the Phryganefe 

 they are either at the tip or in the middle of the tibise ; their number 

 aflbrds an important character for classification, and is expressed 

 by three figures, meaning the three successive pairs of feet ; thus 

 2, 4, 4, means two terminal spurs on the fore tibife, two terminal 

 and two middle ones on the middle tibise, and two terminal and 

 two middle ones on the hind tibise. 

 ineous. Straw-colored ; yellow. 

 A line, usually depressed, sometimes composed of punctures. 

 Plural of stria. 

 ted. Charged with strise. 

 'aduncate. Somewhat hooked or curved. 

 cinereous. Somewhat gray. 

 costa. The vein just behind the costa. 

 hyaline. Almost transparent, or water-colored. 



imago. A state of Ephemera, &c., wherein the wings, &c., are covered 

 with a membrane, which is cast off when it becomes an Imago. 

 bmarginal. Just behind the margin. 



bmedian nerve. The longitudinal large nerve just behind the median. 

 ibnude. Almost without clothing ; without hairs, &c. 

 iibocular. Beneath the eyes. 

 ubrect. Almost straight. 

 ubscabrous. Indistinctly rough, 

 ubulate. Shaped like an awl. 

 ulcus. A groove-like excavation. 

 iilphureous. Of a color resembling sulphur, 

 ature. A seam, or impressed line ; usually between segments. 

 rsus (plural Tarsi). The terminal, almost always jointed divisions of 



the foot of an insect, immediately after the tibia. 

 sneral. A state of the imago after exclusion, in which it has not fully 



completed its coloring, clothing, &c. 

 Bstaceo-hyaline. Transparent, with a slight tinge of dull reddish. 

 estaceous. Dull brick-color. 



